SEGA and Creative Assembly announce a partnership to create games set in Games Workshop's fantasy-themed Warhammer universe. Embattled THQ has developed several Warhammer and Warhammer 40K games over the years (and is still working on
Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium,
theoretically at least), and there's no indication how this deal relates to THQ. Here's word, which says we should expect CA's first Warhammer game until 2014 at least:
SEGA® of America, Inc. and SEGA® Europe Ltd. today announced that Creative Assembly™, award-winning creator of the Total War™ series, and SEGA® Group have entered into a multi-title licensing deal with Games Workshop® to create videogames based in the Warhammer® universe of fantasy battles.
“With this year being our 25th anniversary” A new high-calibre development team has been set up at Creative Assembly’s UK studio to work alongside the existing Total War, Alien™ IP and Mobile teams on the first Warhammer title in the deal, scheduled to launch from beyond 2013.
“With this year being our 25th anniversary,” said Tim Heaton, Studio Director at Creative Assembly, “it seems fitting for us to embark on such a dream project with such a well-established partner. The incredibly rich and detailed Warhammer world is something we grew up with, and has left an indelible imprint on us as both designers and gamers.”
“We’ll be doing the Warhammer universe justice in a way that has never been attempted before. We’re bringing those 25 years of experience and expertise in extremely high-scoring games to bear, delivering a Warhammer experience that videogamers will absolutely love.”
“We have enormous respect for SEGA and Creative Assembly and have felt for a long time that the combination of the enormously rich setting of the Warhammer world, and their stunning development talent is a match with huge potential,” said Jon Gillard, Games Workshop's Head of Licensing. “Now that we’ve managed to bring these two giants of gaming together it is safe to say that some truly amazing products are going to be unleashed as a result. We are excited at the possibilities, and are enthusiastically working with the team at Creative Assembly already.”
This first Warhammer game joins the eagerly-awaited Total War: Rome II™ and the untitled Alien IP as one of five projects currently in production at Creative Assembly, now one of the largest developers in Europe.
For future updates and career opportunities please visit www.creative-assembly.com.
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That's interesting.
I really don't like what Creative Assembly/SEGA did with Empire: Total War, particularly abandoning it and moving on so quickly to Napoleon before fixing major, major bugs and issues. E:TW had a lot of potential, DarthMod helped a lot with some of the AI problems, but CA/SEGA really neutered what you could do in terms of modding.
As such, I`m not going to be preordering Rome 2 but I`m really hoping it`s awesome.
There`s tons of potential for large scale awesome using the TW engines and Warhammer Fantasy universe. We`ll see what happens along side Rome 2 I guess though, not sure how well they could be co-developed if that`s how it`s being done.
As for Relic, they haven`t made an RTS I haven`t really enjoyed except for Dawn of War 2. I can`t wait for CoH 2 and hopefully a new Homeworld game now that they (THQ I guess) have reacquired that license. |
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